Fractional Landscapes

Fractional Landscapes explores the experience of moving through natural, built, and cultural environments, and our attempts to conjure and express these sites in memory and narrative. As we confront the multiple breakage points in the worlds we inhabit, our ability to form a coherent vision of those sites—both collective and individual—is nearly impossible. These images—with distortions, fault lines, mashups, breaks, and bends made in-camera as I move through and across these spaces—attempt to give viewers an analog for the resulting sense of dislocation, loss, and anxiety. I began this project in 2019, the final year of my mother’s deadly descent into Alzheimer’s. The experience of witnessing her dissipation, her unwinding, is also reflected in this work. Read more.